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free market

noun

  1. an economic system in which prices and wages are determined by unrestricted competition between businesses, without government regulation or fear of monopolies.


free market

noun

    1. an economic system that allows supply and demand to regulate prices, wages, etc, rather than government policy
    2. ( as modifier )

      a free-market economy



free market

  1. The production and exchange of goods and services without interference from the government or from monopolies .


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Other Words From

  • free-market adjective
  • free marketeer noun

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Example Sentences

It likely would have appealed to many business people on Main Street, few of whom are free-market fundamentalists.

And in fact the speech did have a liberal tone in the free-market sense.

Early advocates of the free market, like Adam Smith, made two distinct arguments for capitalism.

To Mitchell, his schools are simply an example of the triumph of the free market.

That free-market ideology has taken hold with this newer legislature.

Philippine rural land is a doubtful security for loans, there being no free market in it.

In a free market this commodity would be furnished at the cost of production.

Where monopoly exists, the free market condition being non-existent, price may be constantly elevated above value.

Monopoly-price is, as already observed, an artificial price in the sense that the laws of free market exchange do not apply to it.

Clerk, we shall want this Court-house almost directly to use for a free market for this district.

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